Comments on: Mother of Christ

By: The Crapture

The Crapture — Wed, 11 Jan 2006 09:33:38 +0000

If that was how she was gonna use it, God should have never given Lucianne Goldberg a uterus.

By: sal

sal — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 22:24:19 +0000

Prescience!
He is not an oppressive dictator…. only as oppressive as is necessary to maintain total power…

By: Malatesta

Malatesta — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 04:46:00 +0000

From that radical bastion of left-wing thought “Court TV” (ahem) on the case:

“…the Sacco-Vanzetti case remains in its broad outline the prime example of defendants tried not for what they did, but for whom they were: poor, passionate radicals, in an era in which the United States lived in a state of fear. It was the era of “The Red Scare.”

The case is hardly a slam dunk and most evidence till this day suggests that they were innocent. Dukakis in ’77 tried to make up for the state’s role:

“They weren’t pardoned. That would have been a declaration that they had been guilty. They were — in a manner of speaking — apologized to.”

I also love this line from the article:

“Josef Stalin publicly lamented it.”

Right and anyone who studied the Russian revolution knows just how friendly the communists were to the anarchists (Kronstadt?). Marxists/Stalinists and anarchists are antithetical positions. Good lord someone needs to read some history.

By: Uncle Mike

Uncle Mike — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 04:04:48 +0000

I just sent a letter to the times. Here it is:

Dear Editors;

Jonah Goldberg’s characterization of Matthew Shepard as a “drug addict” has never ever been proven or even alleged by anyone other than the young men who killed him. Pathetic.

The fact that he misspelled Matthew Shepard’s name in his poor excuse for an article is just sloppy and lazy. Do you actually pay him for this drivel? Seriously?

Uncle Mike
(via internet)

By: Jay Brida

Jay Brida — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 03:44:18 +0000

I’m fully ready to break out the faux outrage over Goldberg’s attacks on Italians and our vowel-laden surnames.

If the Repubs can mewl about Durbin, Leahy and Kennedy being anti-Catholic when they take on right-wing judicial nominees, then I can point out that Pantload’s (and DeVore’s) fixation on a 85-year old crime where ethnicity played such a large part (I believe the judge was named Thayer) is anti-Italian and unseemly.

By: Oh, FTLOG

Oh, FTLOG — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 03:24:38 +0000

Henry, you’re just being cynical.

To suggest that Repugs could have independent thoughts….um….disregard, Henry.

By: Henry Holland

Henry Holland — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 02:51:17 +0000

I saw that stupid column fouling up the op-ed page of my hometown paper and laughed because s.z. at Wo'C was snarking about some idiot named Chuck DeVore who wrote on something called Human Events Online about....wait for it...Sacco and Vanzetti and modern lefties. What a coinky-dink! It's almost as if there was a wingnut think tank out there pushing this meme. No, that would never happen, would it?

By: norbizness

norbizness — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 01:56:13 +0000

Having sentenced the two men to death, the judge boasted to a friend “Did you see what I did to those anarchist bastards the other day?” (quoted by Kurt Vonnegut in Jailbird).

Not a shocking, irrelevant turn of Doughy Pantload events, considering that his first column for the LA Times was “FDR fudged the intelligence on Pearl Harbor!!!1!1!”

By: Pere Ubu

Pere Ubu — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 01:25:56 +0000

Two words:

Prescott Bush.

By: Edmund Schluessel

Edmund Schluessel — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 00:33:47 +0000

I note, solemly, the ease with which the final National Review item you cite could be interpreted as an embryonic screed against “judicial activism”.

By: Charlotte Smith

Charlotte Smith — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 00:22:54 +0000

Damn, I wish my high school debating team had taken on Jonah. We could have torn him a new one rather than countering the well-reasoned arguments of other high school students…

Long story short, Jonah’s an assbag.

By: tigrismus

tigrismus — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 00:02:12 +0000

And that Boss Tweed, he was naughty, too! Darn those corrupt Democrats!

By: Brad R.

Brad R. — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 23:38:20 +0000

YEah, I have no idea. Jonah’s a twat.

By: Halfmad

Halfmad — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 23:33:50 +0000

I was a bit flabbergasted by the Matthew Shepard slam–I must have missed a news story along the way????

By: Tom Allen

Tom Allen — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 23:24:13 +0000

But, dude, I hear there arre places where you can get Free Mumia. What? That doesn’t mean what I think it means?

Hmm. Well, then, do you know where I can get a Sack O’ Vanzetti?

By: Brad R.

Brad R. — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 23:07:48 +0000

The most infuriating thing is how he conflates the fringe anarchist left with “liberals.” I mean, really, how many of us lose sleep at night worrying about Mumia?

By: Mal de mer

Mal de mer — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 22:48:41 +0000

I mean, that’s like triple-strength Summer’s Eve douchebaggery.

Superb execution of expanding the metaphor. Magnifique!

Doubtless Jonah Goldberg’s douchebaggery will eventually reveal a virtual symphony of subtle and not-so-subtle notes, bouquets and finishes, from vinegar, water and Canestan, all the way to SOS, lye soap and powdery Pristine residue, influences he was exposed to at the earliest possible moment when he emerged from Lucianne’s va…

…oops. Gotta go. Phone’s ringing.

By: a,j,

a,j, — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 22:28:21 +0000

brad, that was a great post. nice work.

(now listening to “Sacco and Vanzetti” by Christie Moore)

By: Jillian

Jillian — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 21:19:53 +0000

Hmmmm………..

If I get some time later this evening, I might just decide to Godwin this whole silly idea of the doughboy’s by digging up some of the lovely things the American conservative element had to say about Hitler in the thirties.

Has anyone else noticed that any discussion involving any of the brain trust over at National Review always ends up coming back to fascists sooner or later?

By: gus

gus — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 18:51:47 +0000

That was a good one, derek.